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All reports coming from Iran to the Iranian Media Alliance by callers from inside Iran indicates super massive BOYCOTT.

The Iranian people have clearly rejected the Islamist regime again by overwhelmingly boycotting the Mullah's Election/Selection SHOW. The BOYCOTT AGAINST THE MULLAHS HAS A GREAT MESSAGE to the Islamist Regime that they MUST GIVE UP POWER PEACEFULY NOW before it is too late Or ELSE ....

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Tehran, Iran, Jun. 24 – Hundreds of polling stations in Tehran and other towns and cities monitored were virtually empty in the early hours of voting period today during Iran’s second round presidential elections.

In Tehran, about a dozen people were seen queuing up in Geisha, Karaj Al-Mehdi Mosque, and North Amirabad polling stations.

Independent observes said, however, that a half-dozen locations in Tehran, including Hosseineh Ershad, Lorzadeh and Saddeqieh mosques had relatively high turnout.

To stage a large crowd at these selected polling stations, the authorities moved in hundreds of members of the paramilitary Bassij and Islamic vigilantes to vote in front of television cameras.

Polling stations in other major towns and cities such as Shiraz, Ahwaz, Qaemshahr, Hamedan, Neka, Roudsar, Bandar Abbas, Siahkal and Khoramabad were practically deserted despite an eleventh hour appeal by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and incumbent President Mohammad Khatami for high turnout.

Iran’s fourth largest city spends quiet election day

Fri. 24 Jun 2005

Iran Focus

Tabriz, Iran, Jun. 24 – Polling stations across this north-western metropolis and capital of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province remained quiet throughout the day, as the local population by and large ignored the second round of presidential elections in Iran.

A tour of the city at different times of the day between 9 am and 4 pm showed that there were only a handful of voters in most centres, with the security forces often outnumbering the voters. In one of the city’s main thoroughfares, Abressan Avenue, two polling centres had no one turning up to vote between 10 am and 2 pm.

In Imam Sadegh Mosque, Hannaneh Primary School, Dehkhoda School, and Masjede Ghariblar, all in downtown Tabriz, the number of voters at any given time varied between one and four.

The only polling station with a large crowd was Salar-e Shahidan Mosque, the gathering point for members of Ansar-e Hezbollah, the state-organized gangs of Islamic vigilantes.

In Taleghani Street, Shahidi Mosque and Imamzadeh Mosque there were a handful of voters in the afternoon.

The polling station at Shahnaz Intersection, a district populated by ethnic Armenians, was completely deserted.

People walking in the streets or sitting in cafes and restaurants smiled and congratulated one another on the evident victory of boycott calls. Some joked that the state radio and television would be announcing an extension of voting deadline to deal with “the huge turnout”.

Observers believe that if the voting pattern in other cities were broadly similar to what has been going on in Tabriz, Tehran’s mayor would stand a better chance than former President Hashemi Rafsanjani. While the vast majority of ordinary voters have stayed away from the polls, the small minority who support the radical clerics have come out to vote for their favourite candidate, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Iran’s desert town ignores “favourite son”

Fri. 24 Jun 2005

Iran Focus

Garmsar, Iran, Jun. 24 – In this desert town where Iran’s presidential hopeful Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was born 49 years ago, voting stations were almost deserted as the local people preferred to spend the holiday by going to the cooler mountainside villages near the town or staying indoors.

The Tehran mayor, whose father was a well-known blacksmith in the town, seems to be no “favourite son” of the impoverished people of Garmsar, which lies on the edge of Dasht-e Kavir, Iran’s largest desert.

No one interviewed in the quiet streets of the town had any personal recollection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who left the town as a child to study in Tehran and never returned except for short visits.

“Most of the men here commute to Tehran to work as labourers or traders. Many work on construction sites, and a lot of them are unemployed,” said Ahmad Sabahi, an unemployed railway engineer. “Why should we vote? These men are responsible for our misery. This is not my election”.

Except a few older persons who turned up to vote, the vast majority of young and middle-aged inhabitants of this morbid town seemed to share Mr. Sabahi’s feelings.

“Every vote is a stab in the back of Iran,” read a large hand-written sign posted near a polling centre near the town’s railway station.

Hadi, a 20-year-old taxi driver laughed as he drove past the sign. “That’s right”, he said. “Even a blank vote is a betrayal”.

Iran election: Special Photo Report

Fri. 24 Jun 2005
Iran Focus

Tehran and Bandar Abbas, Iran, Jun. 24 – Hundreds of polling stations in Tehran and other towns and cities monitored were virtually empty in the early hours of voting period today during Iran’s second round presidential elections.

I don't think it is a great idea to have them over here since they have got their own propaganda machine ready to attack any one who oppose them.

1) The information which is posted by iranfocus is related to Election boycott and is not considered MEK propaganda.
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3) As long as MEK or any other group work within the following framework
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Tehran, Iran, Jun. 24 - A tour of a dozen polling centres in the western neighbourhoods of Tehran between 2 pm and 6 pm, usually a busy voting time, showed that they were mostly quiet, confirming reports from other parts of the capital that the turnout is lower than last Friday.

No more than a handful of voters were spotted at polling centres in Hejab School in Youssef-Abad district, Ebrahim School in Azadi Street, Qaem School in Behbudi Street, and Chamran School in Azadi Street.

Independent monitors in other neighbourhoods of Tehran reported a similarly low turnout. Voting centres at the Abolfazl Mosque and Motahhari Training College in Seraj Street, Imam Reza Training Centre in Zamani Street were completely deserted some five hours after the start of voting today.

A polling centre in the normally bustling neighbourhood of Amir-Abad in downtown Tehran was deserted at midday. A young girl was holding a portrait of Hashemi Rafsanjani outside the polling centre.

“They paid me well to do this,” she said when asked if she was a Rafsanjani supporter. “But I’m not voting and I suggest you don’t, either”.

Millions of Iranians have boycotted the sham run off elections of the Islamic regime despite the clerics' tactic of creating fear among the population. The rejection of the regime and its totality is so massive that even the joker card of Islamic republic "AhmadiNejad" was not able to boost the quote of an already discredited Rafsnajani.

In Tehran which has over 14 millions of inhabitants, the regime had to close down several ballot boxes, installed last week, and to consolidate them in order to be able to offer a better show to foreign reporters in the Capital. Same trend has been reported from cities, such as, Tabriz, Esfahan, Mashad, Amol, Zahedan, Abadan, Ahwaz, Khorram-Abad, Mashad, Hamedan, Kermanshah and Oroomiah (former Rezai-e).

Most of the few voters are members of security forces and their families, some governmental employees, paid voters and even well recognized prostitutes transformed into pro-Rafsanjani cheerleaders and supporters.

Rumors about the use of mentally health interned individuals ID cards are spread across Iran.

Several clashes have also took place since yesterday evening, such as, in front of Park e Mellat located in N. Tehran where tens gathered in order to request for the boycott and shouting slogans against the regime and all its factions.

Believe is that the regime will extend again the regular voting time in order to move again its forced or professional 'voters' from one ballot box to another with false ID cards.

Promises about welfare and distribution of money or food and other governmental needs were not able to bring Iranians to play the regime game. Threats of cutting some governmental aids neither as many Iranians are qualifying them as "slower dying tools".

Many sources are stating that streets and avenues were so empty that "we couldn't find a nail on the street".

WASHINGTON - Iran is "out of step" with a trend toward freedom and liberty in its region, the US State Department said Friday after hardliner Mahmood Ahmadinejad won Iran's "flawed" presidential election.

"With the conclusion of the election in Iran, we have seen nothing that dissuades us from our view that Iran is out of step with the rest of the region and the currents of freedom and liberty that have been so apparent in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon," State Department spokeswoman Joanne Moore said.

"These elections were flawed from their inception by the decision of an unelected few to deny the applications of over a thousand candidates, including all 93 women," she said.

"We will judge the regime by its actions. In light of the way these elections were conducted, however, we remain skeptical that the Iranian regime is interested in addressing either the legitimate desires of its own people, or the concerns of the broader international community," Moore said.

"The United States believes in the right of the Iranian people to make their own decisions and determine their own future, and as the Iranian people stand for their own liberty, we stand with them."

Hardline Tehran mayor Ahmadinejad swept to a shock victory in Iran's presidential election in Friday's vote, a win set to spell an end to years of difficult reform and place the Islamic republic on a collision course with the West.

The interior ministry said Ahmadinejad, a self-proclaimed fundamentalist seeking a return to the moral "purity" of the early years of the Islamic revolution, thrashed his more pragmatist rival Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Ahmadinejad's victory leaves anti-Western ultra-conservatives in complete control over every elected and unelected institution in Iran, and Rafsanjani's humiliating defeat will remove what has been a moderating influence within the 26-year-old theocracy.

Millions of Iranians boycotted the sham Presidential elections despite all tactics and ruses used by the Mullhacracy and its two appointed run-off candidates.

Nor the fear created by the prospect of the victory of the worst of the two candidates, who's a former hit man and the current Tehran Mayor; Nor the promises made by a 'redempted' powerful man of the regime who's the head of its Interest Council, were not able to bring a majority of Iranians to vote. The first one, AhmadiNejad, who has been declared as winner, is a notorious backwarded Islamo-Fascist known to be a former head of Militia and involved in murder of several dissidents; And the second one, Rafsanjani, is known for masterminding the continuation of war with Iraq, ordering the mass execution of dissidents and looting of national assets.

According to the regime official sources an estimated twenty five millions voters have participated in the electoral process of the so-called June 24th run-off while the official number of eligibles to vote is over forty-seven millions. In reality and based on the regime's voting laws, an estimated fifty-two millions of Iranians should have the right of voting. The regime intended by this way to reduce the impact of the massive boycott by already reducing its margin of five millions.

In addition, various reports, including official, are stating about a high number of irregularities and frauds made by members of the Bassij force and other intelligence circles. ID cards of many dead persons and mentally ill individuals have been used in addition to multiple voting made under the same names by the use of various identification cards, such as driving permit, birth certificate and national or service ID. These reports alone are rejecting the validity of many of the twenty five millions of vote declared by the regime.

Such conscious mass popular protest move has given the final Coup de Grace to the reminence of the so-called "reformists", "pragmatists" and especially to those so-called Iranian intellectuals, such as, Massood Behnood, Mashallah Shams-ol-Vaezin, Simin Behbahani, Abbas Kiarostami, Abdolkarim Soroosh, Ebrahim Yazdi and many other individuals who had quickly forgotten the past, and declared their support of Rafsanjani. Already and coming to the hardliners, Iranians had chosen to throw them in the dustbin of history as early as May 1997 by electing Khatami while declaring that "our vote for Khatami is in reality a possible way to say no to the Islamic regime". Four year later and according to official sources, over fifteen millions of Iranians refused to participate in the 2001 sham elections.

The increasing boycott trend became more visible from 2003, as a majority of Iranians showed their exasperation of the regime's so-called reformists by avoiding to participate in the City Councils Elections. Such massive protest took place despite requests made by all factions of the regime and individuals, such as, Mohsen Sazgara, Ali-reza Noorizadeh, Ali Keshtgar, Darioush Homayoon or Hossein Bagherzadeh who are well known for quickly changing side and intending to continue surfing the popular wave. The popular expression of general rejection of the regime showed itself better with the massive boycott of the parliamentary elections last year and the people's refusal to support the regime's reformists who had staged a hunger strike against their hardliner counterparts.

The victory, this evening, of Ahmadi-Nejad which is due mainly to the massive boycott of the 6th Islamic Presidential elections will open, in days and weeks ahead, the door for new international and internal challenges. On the International front, many European countries had hoped to see the victory of Rafsanjani in order to continue business as usual while calming the US Administration by making believe of possibility of changes in Iran; on the internal front, more and more Iranians will automatically rise up and resist against the future backwarded decisions of the new President who's known for his goal to adopt harsher social and political measures. Such cultural and political clashes will boost the Civil Disobedience Movement and the radicalization of the masses' secularist aspirations.

Unless a last minute surprise or accident for AhmadiNejad, true Iranian secularist groups will have a much easier task to mobilize the Iranians who are rejecting the Islamo-Fascism.

It's to note that Iranians will become also more inclined to reject some of the so-called inside and abroad opposition groups which are known for involvement, at some degrees, with factions of the Islamic regime. They will increase their resistance against any try by outside sources to portray former founders of the regime's Pasdaran Corp., such as Mohsen Sazgara, as the head of their aspiration for a genuine referendum in Iran. Such illegitimate try has started, since last November, by some American and European think-tank groups in desperate need of artificial project for Iran and by discredited Iranians located abroad. The group has had a hard time to sell such idea as most Iranians believe that a referendum should take place only after the collapse of the totality of the Islamic regime and in order to elect the type of their future secular political frame.

The constant action of SMCCDI in denouncing such illegitimate and artificial plans have resulted in being boycotted by some American, European and Iranian journalists or radio commentators or 'news' websites that are more ideological than unbiased. Some of them had promoted the unsuccessful www.60,000,000.com website and declared that Sazgara is the head of the Referendum Movement in Iran.

Iran's Interior Ministry has accused Iran's Guardian Council of election fraud in the presidential runoff vote and said he was placed under arrest when he objected to voting irregularities, Iran's official news agency said.

"I was personally witness to interference of Guardians Council monitors' serious interference in voting stations where I was commissioned to survey the sound process of election," Ali Mirbaqeri, the managing director of the Interior Ministry's Majlis Affairs, told IRNA.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, mayor of Tehran, was declared the winner in the presidential runoff Saturday with more than 61 percent of the vote over Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani's 36 percent.

Mirbaqeri spoke to reporters at the Interior Ministry's election headquarters shortly after he was released from custody.

"The monitors of the Guardians Council were not only filling out the tariffs and controlling the voters' IDs, but also constantly issuing orders for every one," he said.

"The presence of representatives of the governor and the Interior Ministry were thus practically quite useless at the voting stations.

"I voiced my objection to such broad violation of the Election Laws, and was as a result arrested at a voting station," Mirbaqeri said.

He said he was freed after two-and-a-half hours in the Khani-Abad-e-Nou police station jail "thanks to the interference of the Interior Ministry."

"The monitors of the Guardians Council had in all voting stations before the one in which I was arrested, too, been violating the Election Laws, and kept me that they (the GC monitors) were the ones to decide the fate of the elections, and that I had no right to intervene," he said.

PARIS - The victory of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran's presidential election is proof of the failure of western governments' policy of "appeasement" to the Islamic republic, the president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) Maryam Rajavi said Saturday.

"Western governments have some soul-searching to do after the clear failure of years of appeasement. They must ask themselves the question what has happened so that now we have extremists in control of all the levers of power," Rajavi said in a telephone interview from her headquarters outside Paris.

"The complete consolidation of power in the hands of the most extremist elements is the direct outcome of the policy of appeasement that was supposed to encourage so-called moderates to emerge ... There is no longer any excuse to continue that policy. Appeasement must end now," she said.

"Continuing the policy would only encourage the mullahs in their oppression of the Iranian people, their bid to acquire nuclear weapons, and their export of Islamic fundamentalism," she said.

The NCRI is the political arm of the People's Mujahedeen (MEK), which has been fighting the Islamic government in Tehran since the mid-1980s. The MEK has been branded a terrorist organisation in both the US and EU, and Rajavi is leading the campaign to have the label removed.

Describing Ahmadinejad as a "terrorist, a torturer and an executioner," Rajavi said the former revolutionary guard had been charged with leading a team to assassinate the British author Salman Rushdie after a fatwa was pronounced against him in 1989.

"The coming to power of a terrorist and known assassin shows the world that the long and tortuous story of so-called reform (in Iran) was no more than a journey from Islamic fascism to more Islamic fascism," Rajavi said.

"But the least that can be said of an ultra-conservative like him is that western governments can no longer maintain their illusions about the nature of the mullahs' regime. The regime cannot change and will not change," she said.

"It is time for western governments to stop siding with the mullahs and to start siding with the resistance," she said.

Ahmadinejad, 49, is mayor of Tehran. He had a convincing victory over former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in Friday's second round of the presidential race.

PARIS - The election of an ultra-conservative as Iran's next president will lead to more repression at home and fuel Tehran's drive to acquire nuclear weapons, an exiled opposition leader said on Saturday.

France-based Maryam Rajavi, self-styled president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said the elections had been rigged and widely boycotted.

The NCRI, which wants to oust Iran's clerical rulers, has in the past given accurate information on nuclear sites in Iran and forced Tehran to lift the veil on its nuclear program.

"There's no doubt that the Mullah's regime will emerge much weaker" from the elections, said Rajavi, whose NCRI is the political wing of the People's Mujahideen, an armed guerrilla movement listed as a terrorist group by the United States.

"It will therefore step up repression inside the country, it will increase the export of terrorism and religious fundamentalist abroad," she said.

Rajavi branded president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the mayor of Tehran, as a "terrorist and a murderer" whose call for national reconciliation was as fake as a the election result.

"Iranians have no illusions when Ahmadinejad calls for unity," she said through an interpreter in a phone interview.

"What he means is that other factions of the regime should join him and his supreme leader in repressing the Iranian people, help them export terrorism abroad and achieve nuclear power as soon as they can."

Tehran has frozen its uranium enrichment program, which could produce fuel for nuclear power plants or weapons, under a November deal with Britain, France and Germany. They have offered Iran incentives to halt and dismantle the program.

Rajavi said the U.N. Security Council should pass binding resolutions condemning Iran's nuclear program and terrorism record, and demanded an end western "appeasement" of Iran.

"The complete consolidation of power in the hands of the most extremist factions of the Mullah's regime is the result of the policy of appeasement some governments adopted toward the mullahs' regime, hoping to encourage and promote the so-called moderates within the regime.

"We've ended up with a Revolutionary Guards officer and a terrorist in charge of the executive," Rajavi said.